Brandon Shelton

Brandon Shelton is a corporate attorney, who has broad experience in emerging companies and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and IP protection. On the startup financing front, Brandon has led simple SAFE and convertible debt rounds, as well as early- to mid-stage preferred stock financings, which collectively exceeds nine figures in total. Brandon has also guided clients through the more cumbersome regulations surrounding crowdfunding financings. Brandon has also assisted several clients in their equity and asset sales, from the first LOI, through due diligence, and closing. Additionally, having formed dozens (if not hundreds) of companies, Brandon has served as outside general counsel, and prepared various services agreements, sales agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and a myriad of other ongoing documents needed for his clients’ ongoing operations.

Benefits of working with Brandon:

Brandon’s practice is unique, in that he has worked with some of the largest corporate practices in the world, but has also worked with smaller companies and brick-and-mortar shops as well. Indeed, Brandon has helped manage multimillion-dollar financings for tech startups at the same time that he assisted boba tea shops in opening their doors. Because he has interfaced directly with clients of all sizes, there are few legal issues that he cannot provide efficient legal guidance on.

Prior Experience:

Brandon has worked at the largest venture financing firm in the world by volume of transactions, as well as smaller boutiques that focused on corporate and commercial transactions.

Education:

•  J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law
• B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Admitted to Practice:

• State Bar of California 

Practice Areas:

• Corporate Financing
• Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entity Formation
• Trademark Prosecution
• Commercial and IP Counseling

Honors:

• 2022 Northern California Rising Stars List
• 2021 Northern California Rising Stars List

Publications & Presentations:

• CEB – Legal Funding Tools for Early Stage Start-Ups, 2020